Selected translations ELM 2/2019 ••• ChineseTitle “Tantsisklevail lehtedel ta keerleb”Title * 喚發舞動之樹葉 : 五十四首描繪香港風景的俳 (Estonian: Chinese)Author MathuraGenre P...
Eeva ParkMy Majestic Giraffes By Piret Viires ELM 2/2019 ••• From the “Writers with Writers” seriesTallinn; Hea Lugu, 2018. 158 pp. ISBN 9789949634538 In 2018, the Hea Lugu publishing house launc...
Urmas VadiThe Ballet Master By Aro Velmet ELM 2/2019 ••• Loomingu Raamatukogu 2019, nr 6-9EAN 3220000004467 Urmas Vadi’s The Ballet Master is an absurdist satire of nationalist politics written...
Kertu SillasteI Am an Artist By Mari Niitra ELM 2//2019 ••• Koolibri 2018, 32 pp. ISBN 9789985041383 Whether or not something is art can be debated ad infinitum. Oftentimes, you hear people loudl...
Martin AlgusSomething Real By Aare Pilv ELM 2/2019 ••• Varrak 2018, 179 ppISBN 9789985344507 Martin Algus’s novel Something Real, which received the Cultural Endowment of Estonia’s 2019 Awar...
Hasso KrullEurope By Taavi Hallimäe ELM 2/2019 ••• Kaksikhammas 2018, 92 pp. ISBN 9789949999125 Hasso Krull’s poetry collection Euroopa (Europe) becomes steadily denser, more bo...
Piret RaudAll My Relatives By Krista Kumberg ELM 2/2019 ••• Illustrated by the authorTänapäev 2017, 116pp.ISBN 9789949852314 The narrator of Raud’s All My Relatives, a boy named Adam, is far fr...
Tõnu ÕnnepaluParis: Twenty-five years laterandAcre By Siim Lill ELM 2/2019 ••• Paris (Twenty-five years later) EKSA 2019, 176 pp. ISBN 9789949604876 Aaker (Muskoka, Ontario, CA) EKSA 2019, 389 pp. ISBN 97899...
Maarja Pärtna Vivarium By Maarja Helena Meriste ELM 2/2019 ••• Elusamus 2019, 72 pp.ISBN 9789949735013 The role of nature in poetry has, foremost, traditionally been ornamental, atmospheric, or me...
Tõnu ÕnnepaluAcre Translated by Adam Cullen ELM 2/2019 ••• I realized I was very far from home on the very first morning there, in a suburb of Toronto, when I woke up (which had happened several tim...
Poetry by Andres Allan Translated by Adam Cullen ELM 2/2019 ••• Peeling seconds my coat and boots are left dancing hollowly when drunks sway on the highways and the woods have dried up ...
Viivi Luik and Tõnu Õnnepalu 5+5 ELM 2/2019 ••• V: Have you felt great reverence at least once in your life? T: I have no idea what great reverence is. Whenever anyone talks about the ...
Anti Saarknows a recipe for a great children’s book By Jaanika Palm ELM 2/2019 ••• Anti Saar (1980) is one of the most interesting and distinctive members of the younger generation of Estonian children’s writers. After gra...
Meelis Friedenthal:You’ll never tire of boring things By Mihkel Kunnus ELM 2/2019 ••• Meelis, the plot of one of your most memorable works, your novel The Bees, is set during the Little Ice Age when local population numbers p...
Juhan Liiv:A search for the pure word By Mathura ELM 2/2019 ••• The year 2019 looms large in Estonia’s cultural calendar, marking the 150th anniversary of the Estonian Song and Dance Celebration. Its imp...
Allan Cameron:“There can never be too many books!” By Lea Kreinin ELM 2/2019 ••• Allan Cameron is a Scottish writer, translator and publisher who lives in Glasgow. He has already published several books of Estonian liter...
Birgita Bonde Hansen:The greatness of little things By Eva Velsker ELM 2/2019 ••• Birgita Bonde Hansen has translated eight books from Estonian and over forty from Finnish into her native Danish. Her dedicated work has no...
Jaan Kross:When prison is the price of existence By Ian Thomson ELM 2/2019 ••• Jaan Kross first came to prominence in the English-speaking world in 1992 with the publication of The Czar’s Madman (Keisri Hull), translat...
EWOD: A major new ongoing Estonian literary-cultural project By Sven Vabar ELM 2/2019 ••• EWOD (the Estonian Writers’ Online Dictionary) is a lexicon and database compiled by literary researchers at the University of Tartu, ...
EUPL Laureate: Sara Stridsberg The Gravity of Love By Siim Lill ELM 2/2019 ••• Swedish author Sara Stridsberg’s novel The Gravity of Love (2014), which received the EU prize for literature, really is a book to remember...